My reason for being a horrible blogger

Rivers is almost 4 months. He is such a joy to have as my little sidekick. I love being a mom and wouldn't trade all the tired days for anything. He is growing so fast. We weighed him at my mom's work last week and he was 15 lbs 8 oz. He continues to makes us laugh every day. Last Sunday we had him in primary with us and one of the classes were doing their sharing time. They were playing a game and being quite loud and we don't know if it was the vibration of the microphone but Riv started belly laughing. We have heard him giggle before but this was a belly laugh and for almost 20 minutes straight. Stu had to take him out because he got our whole primary going. I love this little baby more than anything!

He fell asleep in his swing



my brother heath got him this Steve Nash jersey for Riv for Christmas. It is still way too big but Stu wanted to try it on him.

Look at that deliciousness.

Cowboy Riv

All I can say is that I love that my brother is a photographer and that I have a baby. When Ryan gets a new lens or something exciting he is always wanting to try it out on someone. Who better than Riv. Here are some he took last night. Oh and he wasn't naked he had a diaper on. Also he is so chubby he kinda looks like he needs a bra. I love him and all of his chubby self. Also We buzzed his head. His new hair was growing in and all of his old, long hair was falling out so we made him go from old man baby to cute buzzed baby. Oh how we LOVE our baby Riv!

Family Pictures

The other day my brother Ryan took our family pictures. We wanted to get some done before Heath left for his mission. We decided since we were all dressed and Rivers hadn't ruined his outfit yet that we would take our family pictures as well. Ryan did a great job! We loved how they turned out!

Heath and Riv. Heath left to the MTC last tuesday. It was bitter, sweet. We love him so much and will miss him a ton but he will be the best missionary. The people of Halifax are so lucky to have him for two years.

Two weeks

I can't believe how big my baby is getting. He is growing so fast! We love having a baby in our home and he has brought such a sweet spirit.

I love dressing him up!

He really likes his aunt Alex

these are his cowboy pjs, they are the cutest ever!

his lumber jack outfit

My boys. Stu has been such a big help its great!

Baby Riv

Rivers David Foust was born on Dec 4th at 9:26 am. he was 8lbs 13oz and was 22 inches long. He is such a big baby! I went in on the third at 8pm to be induced. They induced me at 10 and it seemed to go by so fast from there. I started pushing at 8 am and he was here just an hour and a half later. He is such a good baby and we are totally in love with him!!

he was just a few minutes old here and look at those cheeks!

first family picture

he is always sleeping

Halloween, baby shower and a girls trip

I figured since I was behind a few posts I would just lump them into one. Anyone who knows Stu might know that he loves to dress up for Halloween. So for the past month he had this idea of us dressing up as Bleeker and Juno from the movie Juno. He went on a hunt for his costume and found some pretty good stuff. I pretty much just needed to find a plaid mini skirt and a orange and white striped shirt. It was an easy costume to pull off since i am 8 months pregnant. Stu even wanted the orange tick tacs and he wanted me to have the blue slushy. Here is what we came up with....

Last Tuesday was my baby shower. My awesome sister in law Alex and her super talented mom Charlie whom we like to call Charlie Mom, threw it for me. It was a lot of fun and the food was great. Thanks to everyone who helped out, Aunt Terri, Kristen and Mikki to name a few it turned out great!


super good cupcakes! Some had Butterfingers, others Oreo they were so good!

Last weekend My friend Melanie her sister Jenn, her friend Tamra and I decided we need to do a girls trip. I wanted to do something fun before the baby came and Stu is too busy with school and work for us to go anywhere together so I decided I would go with some girls instead. We decided to go to Saint George and hit up a store called Tai Pan. It is like a Poppy's mixed with Hobby Lobby but for wholesale prices. It is huge! the size of Costco. I love home decor stuff and lets just say it is worth the drive and I was in heaven. Anyways We drove to Vegas on a Thursday and that night we went and saw Mama Mia the play. Ive seen it before and loved the movie so I was excited to be able to see it again. Then the next morning we drove to Tai Pan and shopped for 4 hours. It was great. We left and drove home all night. It was a great trip and I had so much fun with those girls! Jen had 6 carts! I had two and mel had three. Good thing we brought the trailer!

Jen also brought feather boa's for us to wear to mama mia

Mission call, State Fair (weezer) and Cabin Fun

This last week has been a busy one. First my cute little brother got his mission call, and for the record I totally called it like a month before! He is going to Halifax, Canada. It gets 40 below in the winter. He is going to freeze but we are all super excited for him and can't wait to go there when he is home in the summer time in two and a half years. It is beautiful. For anyone who has seen Anne of Green Gables it takes place in his mission area.

My sister Haylee took 2 hours and decorated this cake for Heath.

Last weekend my mother in law and her husband Greg were down. We had a good time with them and on Friday we were able to go up to Dave and Nancy LeSueur's cabin and spend the day with them and their kids. It was so much fun to be around family and in cooler weather. We love the LeSueur family and always have such a good time when we are with them.

we took Miley and Addie around on the quads.

Greg and Julie. It was so fun having them down from Utah.

Stu with Cole, Carter and Miley


Then on Saturday my brother Heath and his friend Nikki, Alex and Ryan and Stu and I went to the state fair to go to the Weezer concert, but decided to go a little early to spend time at the fair. We went two years ago to see the Beck concert but didn't do anything at the fair and decided to this time. Lets just say I'm not much of a fair girl. It could be that I'm super pregnant and had to walk around a lot or it could be the smell and seeing signs like Deep fried bacon chedder mashed potatoes on a stick. WHAT?! All in all the fair is entertaining, the Indian fry bread was great and Weezer was awesome! We were so bumbed because when we got there people were in our seats and wouldn't move! So we were attempting to get to our seats and the lights went off and the show started. I was just bumbed because our seats were a lot better than where we were. But we enjoyed it a lot and they played a lot of old stuff which we enjoyed. They played a lot from Pinkerton my favorite album. Our little guy sure was rockin out the whole time. It was funny.

I had to take a picture to prove it.

I am glad to know if I ever lost a child at the fair they have a trailer full of them.

Stu kinda looks like a cave man, but it could just be that HUGE turkey leg.

Stu and Heath decided to go on this sketchy fair ride.

They enjoyed every minute of it.

Cute baby goat

We asked the girl working if this cow was pregnant because it was HUGE and she said no it was ready to go to the slaughter house. :( Poor cow it looked so miserable!

I am mad we weren't in our original seats closer! Oh well.

Rivers with a mustache.